“_ & the Cloak” is a little personal project photographing people with my mom’s wool cloak.

There are several variations of this saying, but the gist is that you can never be sure of anything except that you can never be sure of anything. And I try to be prepared for that (at least when I’m shooting), which is why it didn’t feel too odd to find myself as hair & makeup artist for the day when my stylist called in sick. So here’s Jill’s little knotted-up hairdo on the left, and me teasing Jenny’s hair on the right (thanks for snapping that picture, Jill!):

And here’s the first shot, at a gutted house that I knew I had to photograph before someone bought it and made it unrecognizably beautiful again: